Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom; for Moses had laid his hands on him. The children of Israel listened to him, and did as Yahweh commanded Moses.
⛓ Read Deuteronomy 34 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion3
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
The 'gift that is in you' conveyed by 'laying on of hands' echoes 'Joshua was full of the spirit of wisdom, for Moses had laid his hands on him.' The endowment of a Spirit-gift through imposition of hands is the direct OT precedent.
High confidenceJoshua was 'full of the spirit of wisdom, for Moses had laid his hands on him,' and so was commissioned to lead. Acts 6 fuses the same two elements — men 'full of the Spirit and of wisdom' who are commissioned when the apostles 'laid their hands on them.' Strong thematic coherence and good verbal volume (spirit + wisdom + laying on of hands as ordination).
High confidenceJoshua was 'full of the spirit of wisdom, for Moses had laid his hands on him,' the precise pattern Paul invokes: a spiritual gift conferred through imposition of hands by the predecessor. Strongly parallels Timothy's reception of the charisma.
Medium confidenceEcho2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The charge against careless laying on of hands recalls that Joshua was full of wisdom because Moses had laid his hands on him. The efficacy and seriousness of hand-laying for office lie behind Paul's exhortation to restraint.
Low confidenceJoshua was full of the spirit of wisdom because Moses had laid his hands on him; here laying on of hands conveys the Spirit. Reinforces the Mosaic hand-laying/Spirit-transfer pattern. Low volume, contested.
Low confidence